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To assist in the planning process, in the summer and fall of 2011, NCTCC partnered with the Center for Court Innovation (CCI), a national technical assistance provider funded separately by OVW, to develop and implement surveys and focus groups regarding experiences with domestic violence in Tribal communities throughout the Northern California region. The NCTCCs mission is to promote and strengthen tribal justice systems to restore balance and order, while honoring sovereignty and cultural values.

The writer assumes the reader is not familiar with the material herein. The original theme for the panel was Ðissues that impact rural American Indian women.

The State of Alaska Task Force on the Crimes of Human Trafficking, Promoting Prostitution and Sex Trafficking was established by legislation in 2012 to do the following: (1) look at the prevalence of the crimes of human trafficking and sex trafficking in Alaska; (2) assess the current services available to victims of human and sex trafficking; and (3) make recommendations for ways to further assist victims. This report is the final culmination of the task force's work and includes the task force's final recommendations.

Although Plan B is legal as an “over the counter” (OTC) contraceptive for women age 17 years old and up, Native American women do not have consistent access to it from the Indian Health Service. This report features the voices of Native American women from a diverse number of Tribes as they discuss their personal experiences with sexual assault and access to healthcare either as a victim or as a service provider.

The Indian Health Service has a long history of providing reproductive health services to Native American women in a manner that challenges a woman’s right to services and violates her basic human rights.

According to the United States Department of Justice, a staggering 34% of all Native American2 women have reported being sexually assaulted.3 Native American women are nearly three times more likely to be sexually assaulted than women of any other ethnic group in the United States.4 Despite these statistics, sexual assault against Native American women is an epidemic largely ignored by the federal government.

This document introduces the fourteenth annual Trafficking in Persons Report (see links below). The report seeks to increase global awareness of the human trafficking phenomenon by shedding new light on various facets of the problem and highlighting shared and individual perspectives of the international community.

This years Trafficking in Persons Report offers a roadmap for the road ahead as we confront the scourge of trafficking." -- John F. Kerry, Secretary of State

Amnesty Internationals publication, ÐReport of TortureÓ, includes Bidermans Chart of Coercion which describes techniques used to torture and brainwash prisoners of war: isolation, monopolization of perception, induced debility and exhaustion, threats, occasional indulgences, demonstrating omnipotence, degradation, and enforcing trivial demands. These are some of the same tactics batterers utilize to maintain control over their partners. They are also tactics used in the colonization of Native People.

American Indian women residing on Indian reservations suffer domestic violence and physical assault at rates far exceeding women of other ethnicities and locations.

Tribal governments across the United States are creating programs to improve response to violent crime. As sovereign governments, tribes can assert jurisdiction in criminal and civil actions involving assaults against Native women.